Overview
- Google designated the Taipei facility as its biggest AI infrastructure hardware engineering center outside the United States.
- Aamer Mahmood of Google Cloud said technology developed and tested at the site is deployed across Google’s global data centres.
- Engineering work will focus on integrating chips, including Google’s TPU processors, onto motherboards and attaching them to servers.
- Google said its Taiwan infrastructure team, established in 2020, has tripled in size and will number several hundred staff at the new center.
- Taiwan’s president and the U.S. de facto ambassador in Taipei framed the opening as a vote of confidence and a deepening partnership, as Taipei continues to warn about risks from Chinese AI systems like DeepSeek that Beijing dismisses.